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Raksangob Wijitsopon – rEFLections, 2025
In the age when environmental sustainability is among the chief concerns and goals of communities around the world, a number of linguistic studies have been conducted to illuminate the roles of language in protection and destruction of ecological systems. Most of the studies, however, focus on written and/or formal discourses. The present study…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Conservation (Environment)
Lama Alhusain – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Interaction has received attention in different fields of applied linguistics. In the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), scholars have perceived interaction as a platform where L2 learners can engage in language experimentation. It has been considered in light of Long's (1981) Interaction Hypothesis, which posits that negotiation of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency, Interaction Process Analysis
Miliam Quispe-Vargas; Kevin Mario Laura-De La Cruz; Fabiola Talavera-Mendoza; Gabriela Manzur-Vera; Gerber Pérez-Postigo; Osbaldo Turpo-Gebera; Rocio Diaz-Zavala – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
The era of globalization and information and knowledge in which we find ourselves requires Higher Education to develop English-speaking proficiency in its students to adequately respond to academic and occupational challenges, taking advantage of the virtues of the variety of resources offered by technology. YouGlish is an online oral dictionary…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, College Students, Dictionaries
Elma Blom; Paula Fikkert; Annette Scheper; Merel van Witteloostuijn; Petra van Alphen – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study compares the home language environments of children with (a suspicion of) developmental language disorder (DLD) with that of children with typical development (TD). It does so by adopting new technology that automatically provides metrics about children's language environment (Language ENvironment Analysis [LENA]). In addition,…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Toddlers
Shoshannah Brienz Jenni Lane – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The employment of genre-based pedagogy and Task-Based Language Teaching in second language education is representative of a paradigmatic shift towards a focus on meaning-making. Despite this shift, second language acquisition (SLA) research continues to predominantly rely on complexity, accuracy, and fluency metrics to assess learner production…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Electronic Mail
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Almost every upper- and middle-class family in Saudi Arabia has a foreign housemaid who does the housework and takes care of the children. This study aims to find out whether foreign housemaids have an impact on children's acquisition of Arabic, the children's first language. Surveys with 300 mothers with children under the age of six revealed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Language Usage, Semitic Languages
Boon, Ian Gregory – ProQuest LLC, 2022
It is standardly believed that some occurrences of expressions designate singularly, while other occurrences of expressions designate plurally. For instance, the singular expression the student may be used on an occasion to talk about one particular student, while the plural expression the students may be used on an occasion to talk about several…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Language Usage, Essays
Firstya Evi Dianastiti; Sarwiji Suwandi; Budhi Setiawan – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
The purpose of this research is to describe the challenges and factors causing difficulties of deaf students in mastering writing skills at inclusive universities in Indonesia. This research is focused in Central Java province because of the more universities are considered as inclusive universities. This research was conducted in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Deafness, Writing Skills
Saichon Pianpadungporn – Higher Education Studies, 2024
In Thailand, the traditional teaching approach used for English language classes has been to explicitly teach English grammar, but in recent years the strategy has begun to shift towards the implicit teaching of language via communicative techniques. Within academic circles, there has been minimal agreement on the suitability of approaches used.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Direct Instruction
Gisela Szagun; Barbara Stumper – Journal of Child Language, 2023
The present study aims at analysing the role of infinitival clauses (INFCs) in German child-adult dialogue. In German subject-less INFCs are a grammatical sentence pattern. Extensive corpora of spontaneous speech between 6 children aged 1;5 to 2;10 and adults were analysed applying structural and contextual analyses. We extended Freudenthal, Pine…
Descriptors: German, Form Classes (Languages), Interpersonal Communication, Dialogs (Language)
Velasco, Ender – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Using authentic materials in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom can develop students' critical thinking (CT) skills, expose them to more realistic English, and support their motivation. Carrying out text analyses of authentic materials in the ESL classroom can also help students become more critical in their approach to reading.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking
Massonnié, Jessica; Llaurado, Anna; Sumner, Emma; Dockrell, Julie E. – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
There has been a resurgence in concern about the levels of pupils' oral language skills at school entry. To support and develop these skills effectively an understanding of the key components of oral language is required. We examined the oral language skills of monolingual children in Reception (M[subscript Age] = 57.9 months; n = 126) and Year 1…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Skills, Elementary School Students
Thompson, Gregory A.; Watkins, Kathryn – Language and Education, 2021
In this article we critically evaluate the case made by proponents of academic language (AL) that AL is functionally necessary for schooling due to specific functional advantages of AL. We consider three examples of AL introduced by AL proponents in order to show (1) that AL proponents have been too quick to accept the ALH, (2) that functional…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language Variation, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
Kyuchukov, Hristo – Intercultural Education, 2022
The paper presents results from a fieldwork study with Russian Roma children. Two groups of children, 6-8 years and 8-10 years old, were involved in the study. Before the pandemic crisis began in Russia, a large number of Roma children were kept home by the parents. The study was conducted in a Roma settlement of a small town not so far from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Children, COVID-19
Pace, Amy; Rojas, Raúl; Bakeman, Roger; Adamson, Lauren B.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Caughy, Margaret O'Brien; Owen, Margaret Tresch; Suma, Katharine – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This longitudinal study assessed continuity and stability of productive language (vocabulary and grammar) and discourse features (turn-taking; asking and responding to questions) during mother-child play. Method: Parent-child language use in 119 Spanish-speaking, Mexican immigrant mothers and their children at two ages (M = 2.5 and 3.6…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Spanish Speaking